Feminism Quotes · Page 168

Lots of women are getting involved. They're not satisfied just being passengers anymore.

— Steve Martin

Since the beginning of the Movement, lesbianism has been a kind of code word for female resistance.

— Ti-Grace Atkinson

I think women are very powerful and I think we're more powerful together than separated.

— Zendaya

“No one can take away my heritage or history. At the same time, it is up to me to discover and embrace…

— The Thoughtful Beast

“Widows don't accidentally flash their underwear at anyone.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

— Tamara Mellon

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

— Caroline Kennedy

Something in our society tells us that women's bodies are fair game for scrutiny in a way that men's simply are not.

— Nicola Coughlan

Women ... have long been discouraged from the awareness and forthright expression of anger. Sugar and spice are the ingredients from which…

— Harriet Lerner

Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are…

— Naomi Wolf

We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are usually attacked,…

— Libba Bray

In early 1970, Newsweek's editors decided that the new women's liberation movement deserved a cover story. There was one problem, however: there…

— Lynn Povich

I grew up with a feminist mom and the understanding that, as someone coming from a position of (relative) privilege, it was…

— Jennifer Weiner

Radical feminists are often highly conservative in many areas except for women's rights, and LGBT activists can be the same.

— Andreja Pejic

Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after…

— Zainab Salbi

When a battle for suffrage is conducted, it should only be conducted according to socialist principles, and therefore with the demand of…

— Clara Zetkin

To me, my version of feminism, it's co-extensive with human rights and democracy. It's just part of the same fight for everyone…

— Naomi Wolf

“My belief is that if we live another century or so — I am talking of the common life which is the…

— Virginia Woolf

There's competitiveness in everything. In any job, I'm sure. I think there's also this stereotype that women together are catty and competitive,…

— Elle Fanning

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men…

— Dee Dee Myers

“(...) It is far from being true that all Women want courage, strength, or conduct to lead an army to triumph; any…

— Lady Sophia Fermor

A woman's work, from the time she gets up to the time she goes to bed, is as hard as a day…

— Marguerite Duras

“He thought women were every bit as intelligent as men, every bit as capable of figuring out how long it would take…

— Adelle Waldman

“There can be bonds of real affection, she said, blinking at us ingratiatingly, under such conditions. Women united for a common end!…

— Margaret Atwood

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

— Ellen Glasgow

Some women never talk about other women; they are too busy talking about themselves.

— Vikrant Parsai

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

— Bill Cosby

A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kinds of questions he is able to answer.

— Ronald Colman

Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.

— Robert A. Heinlein

There are gender health differences, and we need to know what they are.

— Laura Bush

We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.

— Peggy Fleming

Are men and women different creatures? Do we feel things differently? Being a man, I can't know what a woman feels.

— Samuel Barnett

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

— Laurence J. Peter

“Let men say what'er they will Woman, woman, rules them still.”

— Isaac Bickerstaff

“If women are so smart, how come hardly any philosophers have been, and now are, female?”

— Juan T. Llibre

“I may eventually wear high heels because I choose to, not because you made me.”

— Joyce Rachelle

Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.

— George Sand

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

— George Bernard Shaw

The Left can have transgenderism or feminism, but it can't have both.

— Michael J. Knowles

“Men never know when things are dirty or not; women will have their little nonsenses and needless cares.”

— Jane Austen